Shakespeare Overview

Shakespeare Overview

9th - 12th Grade

10 Qs

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Shakespeare Overview

Shakespeare Overview

Assessment

Quiz

Created by

Lissette Ruiz

Arts

9th - 12th Grade

1 plays

Easy

10 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Shakespeare was born in what town or city?
London
Stratford
Snitterfield
Oxford

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who did Shakespeare marry?
Judith Sadler 
Susanna Hall
Anne Hathaway
Mary Queen of Scots

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

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Which of these plays was written by Shakespeare?

Hamlet

Macbeth

A Midsummer Night's Dream

All of them

4.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What type of plays did Shakespeare write?

Tragedy

Horror

Comedy

Historical

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

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Shakespeare was ...

a playwright

a poet

an actor

all of the above

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Tragedy 
an unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud
two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; couplets often signal the EXIT of a character or end of a scene
a play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end
character who changes as a result of the story’s events

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Prologue 
a short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot
character who does not change much in the course of a story
words that are spoken by a character in a play to the audience or to another character but that are not supposed to be overheard by the others onstage
an unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud

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